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Greetings!!
It's that time again, question for this week is....drumroll please....what's your favorite board game? You do remember those? The things that are flat on the floor and except in rare occasions not a cord to be seen? Mine would have to be Scrabble, though Life and Trivial Pursuit are close seconds. Discuss!!
Player of Couri
For a quick board game, Cranium is quite fun if you have a group of about 4 to play it.
If I have time to play a longer game, I still like Axis and Allies a lot.
However, I find few board games with a lot of variety so my choices are a bit odd.
Best Regards,
~GM Arnimas
"Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it."
-Benjamin Franklin
If I have time to play a longer game, I still like Axis and Allies a lot.
However, I find few board games with a lot of variety so my choices are a bit odd.
Best Regards,
~GM Arnimas
"Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it."
-Benjamin Franklin
I love Cranium, think it makes me laugh more than anything. Dark Tower is an awesome classic board game. I also enjoy - and I am not sure what they are called - but they are puzzles and when you put them together you solve the mystery using the picture on the puzzle. Not really a board game, but like it none-the-less.
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
~Niccolo Machiavelli
Lord Bard Tantric
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
~Niccolo Machiavelli
Lord Bard Tantric
>favorite board game
That's a tough question. As a kid, it would've been Clue. As a teenager, probably Trivial Pursuit. Another really fun game for larger groups is Scattergories. And I have to give honorable mention to Risk and Monopoly since I spent so many hours playing them. Once I even wrote a report in math class about studies of which Monopoly properties were the best to own :)
Worst board game ever definitely has to be either Settlers or Curses :) (just kidding, I've never played either)
Apu
That's a tough question. As a kid, it would've been Clue. As a teenager, probably Trivial Pursuit. Another really fun game for larger groups is Scattergories. And I have to give honorable mention to Risk and Monopoly since I spent so many hours playing them. Once I even wrote a report in math class about studies of which Monopoly properties were the best to own :)
Worst board game ever definitely has to be either Settlers or Curses :) (just kidding, I've never played either)
Apu
I disagree that "you can never go wrong with chess", because about three times in my life it's become a durned obsession to the point where I could hardly think about anything else. Got some fun out of it at the time, of course, and played for my college (on the bottom board). Fortunately got out with my social skills intact... nowadays my girlfriend is under instructions to whack me upside the head with my antique marble board if I show signs of a serious relapse :)
On the earlier book thread: HST, RIP. Got my ancient copy of "The Great Shark Hunt" out and dipped in on a long train ride today. The things he wrote in the 60's and 70's were just marvelous.
Balshin.
On the earlier book thread: HST, RIP. Got my ancient copy of "The Great Shark Hunt" out and dipped in on a long train ride today. The things he wrote in the 60's and 70's were just marvelous.
Balshin.
my closet has risk, monopoly, trivial pursuit and scrabble; but the most used one of the bunch is likely yahtzee. it's so quick and simple - and it cleans up the fastest.
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"Simutronics' design motto is 'More Fun. Less Tedium.'"
-Hero Journey FAQ
"Honest men don't make no coin, and coin don't make no honest man..."
-Typhi, or prolly someone smarter
>On the earlier book thread: HST, RIP. Got my ancient copy of "The Great Shark Hunt" out and dipped in on a long train ride today. The things he wrote in the 60's and 70's were just marvelous.
You mean he wrote books too? I thought he was just an ESPN.com journalist :)
(well not really, but I always did like his articles)
Apu
You mean he wrote books too? I thought he was just an ESPN.com journalist :)
(well not really, but I always did like his articles)
Apu
you knwo what was a great boardgame when I was a kid....fireball island. I use to love that game. jsut saw somehtign o nthe net about it and it reminded me of all thosechildhood horus I played it. http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0924/fireball.html
Whenever we're visiting his family (his parents, two brothers, and 8 year old nephew), my husband (player of Kraelyst) and I will pull out various games for a little family fun. Some of the games we've enjoyed lately:
o Dread Pirate (got this one at Barnes & Noble)
o Cranium and Cranium Conga
o Trivial Pursuit
o Clue
o Risk (Lord of the Rings edition, of course)
o Dogopoly (his mom's a Boston Terrier and Pug fan)
o Catch Phrase
~ the player of Gypsy Merchant Nabihle and many others
o Dread Pirate (got this one at Barnes & Noble)
o Cranium and Cranium Conga
o Trivial Pursuit
o Clue
o Risk (Lord of the Rings edition, of course)
o Dogopoly (his mom's a Boston Terrier and Pug fan)
o Catch Phrase
~ the player of Gypsy Merchant Nabihle and many others
